IC 1205
IC 1205
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
151 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 151 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1205 as it looked roughly 151 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 1169Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6063Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5994Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5996Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6186Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5990Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6063Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5994Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5996Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6186Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5990Spiral37 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).